I like my N900 but all the fierce defenders in the community just as bad as the whiners. The whole "if you want app x then make it" and "it's not a phone its a computer" thing is a load of ****. Nokia is marketing the N900 as a high-end phone (or tablet or mobile computer or whatever you want to call it) and people are going to buy it because of that. The other really annoying one is that "it's a new OS/platform", please don't say that ever.

Granted, if you look through the Nokia product page there isn't much said about apps at all, and the screens are all carefully loaded with weblinks, etc. You have to realize its not crazy for people to think they are apps.

The meanness that I see from community members is really disgusting and has been getting worse of late. I can understand frustration with new users coming here, often being rude and complaining. Just don't read the thread. If you do have to read the thread just don't respond. Maybe you could point them to the Maemo gestures demo page so they can learn how to use the browser in a useful way with desktop web pages.

If I was less computer savvy and hadn't been on TMO for a while I would open up my N900, hit the facebook or twitter link and go WTF is this? It'd seem like you'd need one of these to use your device:



So when you go to a thread like this, sure it may not be very pleasing to see another complaining end-user, but don't act like a ****ing *******. We don't need 10-15-20 people spamming nasty comments towards an OP.